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Paul Murry: Anyone for Tennis? - Donald Duck Beach Party # 1 1954

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Paul Murry: Anyone for Tennis? - Donald Duck Beach Party # 1 1954 Comic Art

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Title:	Paul Murry: Anyone for Tennis? - Donald Duck Beach Party # 1 1954
Artist:	Paul Murry (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	328
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	4/10/2023
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Ready? Serve!

This game layout is done for June 1954 Donald Duck Beach Party issue # 1.
This might be the 3rd earliest surviving Paul Murry's Disney comic book artwork! The earliest one looks to be only 2 months earlier published Four Color # 562 Goofy cover.

What makes this very unique also that here is not only the 2nd earliest Murry' Donald Duck, but 1 out 3 of all those Donald Duck artworks which survived from the whole Paul Murry's inked artwork! From over 5800 pages!

So far I have counted only 3 times Donald from his surviving artwork: twice from this issue, and then the last one from 20 years later: the cover for WDC #400 (1974) where is Mickey, Goofy and Donald. And that's all folks! No more!

So, if you are a collecting the finest Disney artists' Donald Ducks... a tough task! I thought never getting Murry's inked Donald Duck, but then once at night needed to have a wake-up at 3am to join a live auction... after that I wasn't tired anymore :-)

As you see from the additional photo, the size of the artwork is really huge! I have paired it with the Dell Giant -series DD Beach Party #1, which was bigger then normal WDC.

The Induck link is here:
https://inducks.org/story.php?c=W+DDBP++1-03I

Post Scriptum... never publish stuff before checking from Joakim Gunnarsson... He pointed immediately one more fine artwork from this DD Beach Party #1, sold by Russ Cochran in the early 1970s, it was in his Graphic Gallery #6. You can find it from here: https://inducks.org/story.php?c=W+DDBP++1-03A
So, now add +1 Murry's DD into the above list I wrote ;-)

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Monty B
Member Since 2006

Posted on 4/10/2023

So cool piece!!! Congrats Matti on snagging these up... 😊👍

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